Time to start thinking about fall migration night flight calls. While I hate to be a bummer and like to hang onto a given season as long as possible, the bright spot is now we begin enjoying the vocalizations after the “birdsong season.”
- birders have become avid about NFC ID
- Detecting species you may not otherwise see on land the next day
- ID frontier/skill “leveling up”
- Automated NFC monitoring
- Sometimes as simple as a smartphone on a windowsill on an open window overnight(!)
- Rooftop mic rigs have yielded conservation-relevant detections
- A way to enjoy bird vocalizations in fall migration, past the “singing season” and before the winter lower diversity bird community (and even less vocal activity) sets in